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Industrial networks are undergoing rapid transformation driven by the convergence of emerging technologies that are revolutionizing conventional workflows, enhancing operational efficiency, and fundamentally redefining the industrial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Md Bokhtiar Al Zami , Shaba Shaon , Vu Khanh Quy , Dinh C. Nguyen

Digital twin has recently attracted growing attention, leading to intensive research and applications. Along with this, a new research area, dubbed as "human digital twin" (HDT), has emerged. Similar to the conception of digital twin, HDT…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Yujia Lin , Liming Chen , Aftab Ali , Christopher Nugent , Cleland Ian , Rongyang Li , Dazhi Gao , Hang Wang , Yajie Wang , Huansheng Ning

The convergence of modeling & simulation (M&S) and artificial intelligence (AI) is leaving its marks on advanced digital technology. Pertinent examples are digital twins (DTs) - high-fidelity, live representations of physical assets, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Philipp Zech , Istvan David

The emergence of beyond 5G (B5G) and 6G networks underscores the critical role of advanced computer-aided tools, such as network digital twins (DTs), in fostering autonomous networks and ubiquitous intelligence. Existing solutions in the DT…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Caglar Tunc , Kubra Duran , Buse Bilgin , Gokhan Kalem , Berk Canberk

Human Digital Twins (HDTs) are digital replicas of humans that either mirror a complete human body, some parts of it as can be organs, flows, cells, or even human behaviors. An HDT is a human specific replica application inferred from the…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Heribert Pascual , Xavi Masip Bruin , Albert Alonso , Judit Cerdà

Digital twin (DT) technologies have emerged as a solution for real-time data-driven modeling of cyber physical systems (CPS) using the vast amount of data available by Internet of Things (IoT) networks. In this position paper, we elucidate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Jithin Jagannath , Keyvan Ramezanpour , Anu Jagannath

A human body digital twin (DT) is a virtual representation of an individual's physiological state, created using real-time data from sensors and medical test devices, with the purpose of simulating, predicting, and optimizing health…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Chenyu Tang , Wentian Yi , Edoardo Occhipinti , Yanning Dai , Shuo Gao , Luigi G. Occhipinti

Digital twin (DT), refers to a promising technique to digitally and accurately represent actual physical entities. One typical advantage of DT is that it can be used to not only virtually replicate a system's detailed operations but also…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Jiayuan Chen , Changyan Yi , Samuel D. Okegbile , Jun Cai , Xuemin , Shen

The concept of Digital Twin (DT) is increasingly applied to systems on different levels of abstraction across domains, to support monitoring, analysis, diagnosis, decision making and automated control. Whilst the interest in applying DT is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Ran Wei , Ruizhe Yang , Shijun Liu , Chongsheng Fan , Rong Zhou , Zekun Wu , Haochi Wang , Yifan Cai , Zhe Jiang

Despite the growing popularity of digital twin (DT) developments, there is a lack of common understanding and definition for important concepts of DT. It is needed to address this gap by building a shared understanding of DT before it…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Zhengyu Liu , Sina Namaki Araghi , Arkopaul Sarkar , Mohamed Hedi Karray

Digital Twin (DT) technology has become rather popular in recent years, promising to optimize production processes, manage the operation of cyber-physical systems, with an impact spanning across multiple application domains (e.g.,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Mirgita Frasheri , Prasad Talasila , Vanessa Scherma

Central to the digital transformation of the process industry are Digital Twins (DTs), virtual replicas of physical manufacturing systems that combine sensor data with sophisticated data-based or physics-based models, or a combination…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Michael Mayr , Georgios C. Chasparis , Josef Küng

Digital twin (DT) is one of the most promising enabling technologies for realizing smart grids. Characterized by seamless and active---data-driven, real-time, and closed-loop---integration between digital and physical spaces, a DT is much…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-17 Xing He , Qian Ai , Robert C. Qiu , Dongxia Zhang

Digital twin (DT) technology has received immense attention over the years due to the promises it presents to various stakeholders in science and engineering. As a result, different thematic areas of DT have been explored. This is no…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Taiwo A. Adebiyi , Nafeezat A. Ajenifuja , Ruda Zhang

Human digital twins (HDTs) are dynamic, data-driven virtual representations of individuals, continuously updated with multimodal data to simulate, monitor, and predict health trajectories. By integrating clinical, physiological, behavioral,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Rong Pan , Hongyue Sun , Xiaoyu Chen , Giulia Pedrielli , Jiapeng Huang

Complex IoT ecosystems often require the usage of Digital Twins (DTs) of their physical assets in order to perform predictive analytics and simulate what-if scenarios. DTs are able to replicate IoT devices and adapt over time to their…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Luca Sciullo , Alberto De Marchi , Angelo Trotta , Federico Montori , Luciano Bononi , Marco Di Felice

This paper aims to provide a comprehensive critical overview on how entities and their interactions in Complex Networked Systems (CNS) are modelled across disciplines as they approach their ultimate goal of creating a Digital Twin (DT) that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Jiaqi Wen , Bogdan Gabrys , Katarzyna Musial

With the accelerating availability of multimodal surgical data and real-time computation, Surgical Digital Twins (SDTs) have emerged as virtual counterparts that mirror, predict, and inform decisions across pre-, intra-, and postoperative…

Agentic AI has taken on the role of assistant, collaborator, and decision-support tool. We argue the next role on that list is more personal: you. These are digital twins of each individual -- twin agents -- representing their knowledge,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Hugo Andersson , Niklas Elmqvist

As collaborative robot (Cobot) adoption in many sectors grows, so does the interest in integrating digital twins in human-robot collaboration (HRC). Virtual representations of physical systems (PT) and assets, known as digital twins, can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Mohamad Shaaban , Alessandro Carfì , Fulvio Mastrogiovanni